Archive for March, 2009
In The Loop: ever get the feeling you were being followed?
Armando Iannucci’s new film, In The Loop, is out on 17 April and promises, no doubt, to be a bitingly funny satire on British politics and communications.
There. With that opening sentence and video I have done exactly what the PR company wants me and other bloggers to do as a result of their social media [...]
Sometimes They Nest… Some More!
Betty, my Speckledy hen, has gone broody.
This means she will sit on the nest for about 21 days, not laying any eggs and barely eating. Which is a problem if you’re Rosie (my other hen), and want to lay an egg. And a problem if you’re Betty and don’t get enough to eat or drink.
Some [...]
My house is on Google. My jaw is on the floor.
Google Street View went live for the UK yesterday.
So I promptly did the only rational thing and went looking for my house.
To my utter astonishment (given I live in little known Norbury), here it is, and what’s more I can pinpoint this photo to some time between May-July 2008 by recognisable features and alterations to [...]
Found/interesting: 9-20 March
Look what I found interesting.
Working Together – Crime maps, schools comparison engines – it’s all go in the world of digital government. Good to see RSA using Australia’s favourite OSS CMS as the online response channel for this consultation.
Tweeting for twouble – 12 good men and true …oh and all those Twitter users too. Big [...]
It just goes to show you can’t be too careful!
I sort of agree with David Mitchell’s hilarious take on government seeking online feedback (hat tip: Kerry McCarthy) – at least where that feedback is sought on public services or ‘election issues’ like tax, transport and Clarkson. The low barrier to entry when commenting online does mean you get more than your fair share of [...]
Plan plot scheme!
“PLAN PLOT SCHEME!” is what I wrote on my To Do list last weekend.
…Not realising until I read it back that it’s just the sort of thing Guy Fawkes (not that one) may have typed into his PDA-equivalent one October weekend in 1605.
What I meant was the relatively innocent task of planning a planting scheme [...]
Grumpy old media
She wasn’t the first, and she certainly won’t be the last, but Rachel Sylvester’s Twitter-bashing editorial in today’s Times is surely the absolute worst thus far of the recent old media knee-jerk reactions to the use of Twitter by government and politicians.
Not only is her microblogophobia out of step with her own paper, which – [...]
Geek is good!
My big sister didn’t know I had a blog. She does now:
Swiftly followed by:
And look, she’s using Tweetdeck! Go sis! (And hello, if you’re reading this).
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
